Nov 7 Women's Soccer headed to NCAAs

The Skidmore College women's soccer team is on it's way to the NCAA Division III Championships for the fifth time in program history and the third time in the past four years.

The Thoroughbreds (13-6) will travel to Messiah College in Grantham, Pa. to take on MIT (14-3) in the first round at a time to be announced on Saturday, Nov. 12. The winner of that game will play the winner of Messiah (17-0) and Elms (10-5) in the regional final at 5 p.m. on Nov. 13.

Skidmore received an at-large bid to the 64-team tournament after finishing second in the Liberty League.

This past month Skidmore College welcomed Elizabeth Kolbert, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History back to campus. Sponsored by the the Saratoga Springs Public Library, the Gannett auditorium was nearly full with an overwhelming majority of older members of the community, along with a smattering of Skidmore students and faculty.

It is an important time for seniors, as well as other upperclassmen who will soon enter their final year at Skidmore, to begin considering the value of consistently supporting the college after graduation.

Get to know Drobakid, a student band that mixes the lyricism of timeless folk music with new-wave sounds inspired by great psychedelic bands. They talk candidly about nerves, music, and each other. Check out some of the tunes they mention here at Drobakid.bandcamp.com.

On April 8, Hungary held its parliamentary elections, resulting in a victory for the Fidesz-KDNP alliance, with Victor Orbán selected as the country’s Prime Minister. Orbán’s radical platform is not only detrimental to Hungary, but also poses a risk to the stability of the European Union.